To change your SUI rate in QuickBooks Desktop:

Click Next > Next for the Company tax rates for [year], and enter the correct rates for each quarter.If your system date is between 7/1 and 1/1 you will also be able to add the rate for the first quarter of the following year.

After you enter the correct rates, you may get a popup message for Payroll Tax Rate Change Warning, click Continue. Your SUI rates are updated.

Click Next once and click to clear any compensation items that are not subject to your state's unemployment tax (check with your state's unemployment department for more details).

Click Next > Finish

Note: If you change your SUI rate in the middle of a current quarter or in a prior quarter, QuickBooks Desktop will not auto adjust the tax amounts collected for any employees who have reached the wage limit prior to the rate change. To adjust the tax amount collected for SUI, you will need to do a manual tax amount adjustment for each affected employee for each quarter affected.

If you need to adjust SUI wage bases and/or amounts reported for your employees, create a Payroll report to determine these numbers. See steps below:

Click Reports >Employees & Payroll > Payroll Item Detail

Set the date to view each specific (affected) quarter.

Click Customize Report button and select the following:

Date

Source Name

Payroll Item

Wage Base

Amount

Click the Filters tab. Under Filter select Payroll Item from the list.

Click the down arrow under payroll Item and select your State Unemployment item.

Click OK.

Look at the total wage base column for the SUI and multiply it by your current rate.